
Kosmos Pavilion exhibition hall Moscow in 1989
Located at the U.S.S.R Economic Achievements Exhibition park (now the All-Russian Exhibit Center) near the subway station VDNKh. It is a huge park with almost eighty pavilions and once had open air displays of soviet economic and cultural achievements. Outside the gates is the impressive 99 metre high monument to the Russian space programme. The Kosmos Pavilion housed replicas of Soviet spacecraft and satellites, including Vostok in which Yuri Gagarin made the first flight into space in 1961. The entire park now concentrates on commercial products. The Kosmos Pavilion is
apparently full of automobiles and sailboats on display for potential buyers, and the space hardware had been shoved over to the side of the hall or into the smaller, out-of-the-way side halls.